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Best Places to See Poetry Performed Live This Summer
As summer rolls in and the temperature rises, here are some of the best places you can catch live poetry and feel the warmth within.
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Bobby LeFebre Aligns, Finds Power: Mightier Than The Sword | The ACTIONISTS Series
Bobby sees words as action, part and parcel, intertwined in the very fabric of existence, a grounding motivation for movement, for protest, for love, for community, and for building up in us, between us, and around us a world that…
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Genus Loci: A DiverCity conversation with Andrea Gibson
Words, it was once said, are made up of 26 letters, and that's all that's needed to explain and describe everything in the known universe. Andrea Gibson's universe is one we're grateful for.
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The Word on Lit Events
It’s a long-lived festival with an equally long name: Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics’ Summer Writing Program, from June 11 to July 1 at the school’s downtown Boulder campus, is in its 43rd year. The internationally-renowned festival…
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Voices: A Choir of Blackbirds
Dominque Christina was voted “Best Poet” in our 2015 Best of the West celebrity poll last month. After reading this poem, you’ll know why.
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